: It is important in order to be successful in business to establish goals and focus. You are right about having short term goals, even daily goals, to help get you there. Great analogy with the HUD.
: Yes, hold you head high. In drag racing, there are incremental timers at 60ft, 330ft, 660ft, 1000ft then the finish line, 1320ft from the start. Each one is a goal, to get to each point quicker, and to be there at the finish 1st! Great analogy.
I can't count the number of folks I've met in life who's highest goal was to get through the day. Makes getting through the next year seem impossible, and just forget about anything more. What's to look forward to and live for without keeping one's head up and looking farther ahead than where one is at the moment?
Submitted by Jim Hickey:
Do you think that having a job is secure? Today, jobs might just be the ultimate risk because with a job you have only one option for income. Is that safe? If you lose your job, you lose all of your income. (Read More)
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: It's true that you can have multiple streams of income, or passive income, with a home business. I've always been uneasy about depending on just ONE source of income, so with an online business, especially, it's possible to have lots of different sources for your money. That way if one goes sour, there are replacements. One more reason to love the Net! :-)
: Definitely, there are more people beginning to realize that home business and working for yourself is the way to go. Nobody can ever tell you that you are laid off or fired. And yes, your right, with the ability to add multiple income streams, it's smart not to put all of your eggs into one basket.
: Home business are a great way to make additional income. I've started my internet business with no income or traffic. It been watching my small website grow and it's especially fun to see my pages first on google. I find that the tax advantages are the biggest advantage of creating a home based business.
Submitted by Sydney43
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Most of us have NO IDEA about what’s in the beauty and skin care product we used this morning. We’re either uninformed or unconcerned with safety and often believe that ‘they’ are watching out for us. Not so! There are hundreds of deadly chemicals that are commonly used and if you check the ingredients label [...] (Read More)
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: Hi 5 folks ... strange thought how most folks can use products on their bodies without knowing what could be in certain products - I suppose this is like going to the doctors and being subscribed a course of drugs and not bothering asking or checking the implications of long term use...
Submitted by Mmentors
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Today I continue my series on cycles. As I've done stock market research over the years, I've repeatedly come across the idea of market cycles that repeat around the same time of year. They're often called seasonal or calendar cycles.
These cycles can be used in buying stocks and even rolling stocks on a long term [...]. (Read More)
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: Sounds a lot like some of the old weather forecasting techniques. "Red at night, sailor's delight. Red in the morning, sailor take wrning." Many times these work well ... but they're not 100% all by themselves.
: I have only recently got into forex trading - just playing up with demo accounts. I really only started to learn on babypips.com, but will add your blog to my resources. Thank you for a great video!
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This sounds like a quote from one of those inspiring posters with a gorgeous photo and an inspirational quote. It's true that it's better to fail than avoid something because you're afraid of failure.read more. (Read More)
: Nice article. Too often failure is seen as failure, not just another step on the ladder to success. When you're discovered the reason for why something didn't work, the sensible person evaluates, looks to what can change, discovers the why and attacks the issue again. If no anaylsis is done and failure becomes a repeated process, then you are a failure, because you failed to learn, grow and move forward.
Submitted by Asearvern:
A new poll shows that small business owners are up at night considering a number of decisions that will affect the future of their business' financial needs.According to EMPLOYERS' Small Business Opinion Poll, 65 percent of small business owners say they are getting less sleep because of worries about the economy and their (Read More)
: Small business owners should be concerned about the how the present economy is affecting them now, and in the near future. The news, economic strategists, and even our President, say that the situation is going to get worse before it gets better. The other side is that it does appear that small businesses will be stronger once we get through the recession because people are more afraid of large corporations. That is a good thing although it is hard for small businesses to feel that way right now. I heard last week of a poll that said there is now increased confidence in small businesses. Hopefully that leads us into recovery.
: As a small business owner myself here in Australia - it is a worrying time, like the USA here in Australia the predictions are that it is going to get worse. I just make sure that I don't over committ, make do with how things are going, spend my money whereby it's going to make me money.
Submitted by Vicki Zerbee:
Top ranked sites rise above the ocean of competing pages of the content cloud to achieve top 10 rankings because of high quality content, basic SEO and Content Syndication. (Read More)
Submitted by Mmentors
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The response to the last post is that readers want to hear about ALL the different market cycles!
So today I start with the first of a series of blog posts on cycles. I'll be demonstrating with a currency chart, the forex EUR/USD pair, but what I share also applies to futures and stocks.
We begin with [...]. (Read More)
: I have always been interested in trading. I know from economics classes and talking to traders that it is a very intricate. There are many factors to consider and even then, you'd better know what your doing or have a trusted professional.
: Excellent post with an informative video about cycles. I especially appreciated the info about the various ways of measuring cycles. Great point also about needing multiple indicators.
Submitted by Mentor Rhonda:
It’s Good Friday, 10 April 2009, raining here in the Tropics of Australia, Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef. My teenage boys have commandeered the computers – as they do – my darling husband is playing computer games on his, so I resorted to my much loved job of IRONING. (Read More)
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: the great barrier reef you should be sooooo lucky :-}}, ventured that way many moons ago myself...
anyway, great article illustrating some common truths i believe we all share starting any online venture.
if you can only be soooo lucky to find a mentor/coach sooner rather than later who has your best interest at heart the sooner success online will follow ...
: No question that a mentor can make all the difference in any endeavor, but it's especially important in network marketing. Without a mentor you're likely to make mistake after mistake and never understand why.
Submitted by Heartsmart:
No, I’m not being sexist or stupid (although I probably have a little of both in me). I’m being totally realistic and strategic and you’d be wise to read on. Running a social media marketing company has brought me in front of numerous business owners who are desperate to increased sales in our current recession market. (Read More)
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: It was funny to see 'needing a hubby' from a guy. :-) Your article is spot on, though, because just getting a name on your list doesn't mean much of anything. This is even more true in the age of social media where the buyer has all the power. Consumers have gotten much more savvy and are demanding high quality products and excellent customer service. All honest biz owners should applaud this development.
: This is a very important point. Many people simply try to get a big list without thinking about the quality of the list. The first thing people should do is determine their market, it focuses their efforts, fine tunes their message and saves a ton of time!
Submitted by Jonclayton
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“The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” — Peter DruckerHave you seen the endless advertisements? Thet are all over the place. For some of your hard earned money (usually quite a sum at that), you can use our “proven” system and the cash will simply pour into [...] (Read More)
: Hi 5 Jon ... your right on the money shot with this post I think the internet as in marketing your product on the web has changed in the past couple of years - and as today’s marketing is all about good content that folks are searching - so with that said the best favor you can do for your time and trouble is to get together information that folks want is the best place to start out in today’s bustling market place...
: Hi Jon, I am 100% in agreement with this discovery of building your own web of content that costs so much less and gives us 10 times the ROI. There are great educational products out there that help us learn exactly how to "build it so that they will come." My internet traffic machine is working 24/7 thanks to mentors like Charles Heflin and Mike Klingler. Thx for this article on your blog!
: I don't pay for any adverts, why? well I think I am a marketer. and i don't need to as i use this method myself. people believe stuff they find themselves.
I am a carpet cleaner and have in the past tried to help others that have ask for help, but they do not value free information that is given. but they do if they find it themselves. this was very interesting for me to find out.
Submitted by Jonclayton
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“You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone, which can become a watered-down, occasional hope that you’ll get to tomorrow. Intention without action is useless.” — Caroline MyssIn order to create your internet traffic machine, you will need a blog. This is where you are going to send people to become acquai (Read More)
: It is easy to set up a blog and can even be done for free on viral sites like blogger.com. All businesses should have a blog and then decide what they want their purpose of the blog to be. Customer service can be integrated, a social aspect, and definitely information about the products and services offered and their benefits and solutions. Looking forward to your continuing blog series.
Submitted by Vicki Zerbee:
One of the major struggles many network marketing business owners encounter with Internet marketing relates to the lack of technical skill to create “traditional” websites. This is one of the main reasons why Internet marketing advocates often develop blogs as the medium of choice when delivering their message via the Inter (Read More)
: Lots of very useful info. Blogging is become more popular than regular wedsite. Bloggs offer many advantages and allows you o keep it up to date. Setting a blog is easy but if you are new to day you need to learn how to do it. Like your reference and videos sounds good. Remember that learning how to become a blogger is essential to your success.
: Gotta have one for your business. It takes some work to get used to working with one. The videos will be something to go over and double check yourself with. Well worth the effort.
: I hear what you're saying about the problems in setting up a 'traditional' site, vs a blog. Actually, though, I find the blog harder to manage because there is less freedom. I can do things with Dreamweaver and HTML that my Wordpress blog can't do. However, a blog has one huge advantage of a static site: RSS. You've gotta love auto-announcements whenever you make a new post.